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Keyboardist/arranger “Captain” Daryl Dragon and his wife, vocalist/pianist Toni Tennille, scored some pop/rock strikes within a light, intimate vein in the next half from the 1970s, one of the most successful which was the initial, “Love COULD KEEP Us Jointly.” The few met in the summertime of 1971, when Dragon …

b. 7 Sept 1897, Kiev, Russia, d. 15 Sept 1973, LA, California, USA. A favorite songwriter who loved success mainly within the 20s and 30s, Sherman’s his first tunes, ‘Save Your Sorrow’, in 1925, was effective for the Shannon Four, Ray Miller and Gene Austin. Al Sherman’s additional well-known figures …

Lyricist and film maker Arthur Freed wrote such strike tracks as “Pagan Like Music” and “Singin’ in the torrential rain,” scored the 1929 film Broadway Melody, and produced many successful film musicals like the Wizard of Oz. Although he was created in Charleston, SC, (1894), Freed grew up in Seattle, …

Vocalist/songwriter Jonathan Richman is sufficiently well-established like a single artist, and it’s really easy to forget the undeniable fact that the moniker sometimes useful for his support music group, the Modern Enthusiasts, was once linked to a coherent band of which Richman was an associate. The Boston-based group the present …

Rose Royce — the Los Angeles-based group made up of Henry Garner (drums); Terral “Terry” Santiel (congas); Lequeint “Duke” Jobe (bass); Michael Moore (saxophone); Gwen Dickey, carrying out using the group utilizing the stage name Rose Norwalt (business lead vocals); Kenny Copeland (trumpet, business lead vocals); Kenji Dark brown (guitar, …

Detroit trumpeter who played sound post-bop, then moved to Chicago and subsequently retired. Was a significant voice when energetic. Worked well briefly with Charles Mingus.

Broadly acclaimed among the best soloists in gospel history, Clara Ward was also the main topic of very much criticism from purists — with her backing group, the Ward Singers, she pushed gospel from the church and in to the nightclubs, infusing the music with a go of glitz and …

There has been considerable discussion about whether Bobby Darin ought to be classified being a rock and roll & move singer, a Vegas hipster cat, an interpreter of popular criteria, or perhaps a folk-rocker. He was many of these and nothing of the. Throughout his profession he made a spot …

Created in 1973 in the urging of Asylum Documents president David Geffen, Souther-Hillman-Furay was the offspring of almost every significant country-rock strap. Richie Furay was a founding person in both Buffalo Springfield and Poco; Chris Hillman have been using the Byrds, the Soaring Burrito Brothers, and Stephen Stills’ Manassas; and …

Arguably probably the most successful musical humorist in pop history, song parodist Allan Sherman was created Allan Copelon in Chicago about November 30, 1924. After getting into display business as article writer for famous brands Jackie Gleason and Joe E. Lewis, Sherman attemptedto mount his personal career like a performer, …